Full brown calf, rebacked in brown morocco, ?17th century<\/p>" }, { "label": "Decoration", "value": "
Purchased by the John Rylands Library in 1905 from the London booksellers Bull & Auvache for £25; invoice dated 12 July 1905<\/p>" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Mirror of the Life of Christ" }, { "label": "Layout", "value": "Written height: 188 mm, width: 130 mm." }, { "label": "Translator(s)", "value": "Love, Nicholas, active 1410" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "Mid 15th century" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "England" }, { "label": "Collation", "value": "
Quires are signed in the usual late medieval way.<\/p>
Secundo folio:<\/b> n/a (the first quire is lacking the first and second leaves).<\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Script",
"value": " Gothic cursive anglicana formata<\/i><\/p><\/div><\/div>"
},
{
"label": "Language(s)",
"value": "Middle English"
},
{
"label": "Physical Location",
"value": "The John Rylands Library"
},
{
"label": "Extent",
"value": "140 folios (ii+140+ii) Leaf height: 300 mm, width: 200 mm."
},
{
"label": "Classmark",
"value": "English MS 98"
},
{
"label": "Subject(s)",
"value": "Religion; Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500; Christianity"
},
{
"label": "Abstract",
"value": "A fine illuminated manuscript of the Myrrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ, a translation by Nicholas Love of Pseudo-Bonaventura's Meditationes vitae Christi. Myrrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ, a translation by Nicholas Love of the Meditationes vitae Christi. Edition of Lawrence F. Powell, (1908): see Bibliography below. The text begins imperfectly 'and euery age an euery dignite' (Powell, p. 8 line 5) and ends on folio 136v<\/a>, 'with outen endinge amen' (as Powell), after which it continues on folio 137r<\/a> with two paragraphs, 'And for als moche as þat blessid and worthy feste of þe precious sacrament... of alle false lollardes.<\/p> Thus endith the contemplacion... nowe and euere wt outen ende Amen', and on folio 137r and 137v<\/a> in red ink, 'Memorandum quod circa annum... (as in MS. 94, folio 2) Explicit speculum vite cristi conplete'. In the second of the two paragraphs on folio 137r-137v<\/a> the reader is advised to pick and choose as suits him rather than keep to the Monday-Sunday divisions of the text.<\/p> A leaf is missing after folio 90v<\/a>, which ends 'grace inwardly' (Powell, p. 214 line 7); folio 91r<\/a> begins 'the fairest the wisest' (p. 216 line 28). A further leaf is missing after folio 126v<\/a>, which ends 'of þe holy' (p. 299 line 5); folio 127r<\/a> begins 'haue mynde of' (p. 302 line 13). folios 138v-140v<\/a> were left blank.<\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Collection",
"value": "Middle English Manuscripts"
},
{
"label": "Bibliography",
"value": " Foliated 1-140 (modern foliation)<\/p><\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Format",
"value": "Codex"
},
{
"label": "Material(s)",
"value": "Parchment"
},
{
"label": "Provenance",
"value": " Roberts family of Willesden, Middlesex, and Hordefamily of Ewell, Surrey<\/p> Annotated 'Brindley' in a 16th-century hand of folio 61r<\/a>, with the forename 'John' added in a 17th-century hand.<\/p> Robert Knyvett. Inscription 'Robert Knyuett oweth this booke' on folio 138v<\/a>, 17th century. A Robert Knyvett of Westminster gent. is recorded in 1611 (Norfolk Record Office, KNY 473 372 x 1). Sir Robert Knyvett bart of Buckenham, Norfolk, died in 1699 (Burke's extinct and dormant baronetcies (1841)<\/p> Thomas William Evans. Armorial bookplate inside the back cover, 19th century<\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Date of Acquisition",
"value": "1905"
}
],
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"attribution": "Provided by The University of Manchester. Zooming image © University of Manchester Library, All rights reserved.<
"
},
{
"label": "Foliation",
"value": "